Teaching to the test
Why the obsession with test scores? In Chicago, where teachers are striking, Illinois law requires that at least 25 percent of a teacher's rating be based on student test score.
View ArticleGas price politics
At GasBuddy.com, there's a chart that shows gasoline prices over the past eight years. (The link is available at right. Click on eight years along the upper tab once you reach the sit.
View ArticleHow far upriver
I won't say that the end of Monday night's Packers-Seahawks game was surreal but, yes, it was strange. As the video continued to show replays of a football play, the audio was overtaken by an upriver...
View ArticleNever over til it's over
Pete DuPont has an item in the Wall Street Journal today, titled, "The Election isn't Over - Only fools and partisans think Obama has it locked up." Well, duh.
View ArticleHe's so affable
Gov. Mike Huckabee is an affable guy. Sometimes he must think that, because he's so affable, he's entitled to say rude and outrageous things. All while being affable, of course.
View ArticleWhat kind of bargain
The Daily News published an editorial today criticizing President Obama for waging a "war on coal." New limits on coal, the editorial charges, "would force tens of millions of families to pay hundreds...
View ArticleRemembering Sen. McGovern
Sen. George McGovern once joked that he had wanted to run for president in the worst way - and that he had done exactly that. In truth, he was a man of exceptional courage - on the battlefield and in...
View ArticleChristmas in October
What could it be? Donald Trump has promised an announcement (maybe on Wednesday) that could "possibly" change the election.
View ArticleAs suspected, it was nothing at all
It turns out there was nothing in Donald Trump's surprise box after all.
View ArticleBad time to start a brawl
Why is Mitt Romney blowing up his own campaign by fighting with the auto companies Chrysler and GM? The candidate made a false claim about Chrysler job losses in a campaign speech - got a reprimand and...
View ArticleRobocall complaint
The Republican-nominated candidates for Michigan Supreme Court in Tuesday's election are incumbent justices Brian Zahra and Stephen Markman and Oakland County Judge Colleen O'Brie.
View ArticleRomney and the hornet's nest
On Election Day, President Obama's top adviser predicted that Mitt Romney's misleading ad about the auto industry would backfire. David Axelrod, in a CNN interview, said the ad was "creating a real...
View ArticleBig gift?
Mitt Romney said many curious things in his recent conference call with fund-raisers and donors to his campaign, but let's just focus on his claim that President Obama wooed young voters with a "big gif.
View ArticleLeast of the Packers' worries
It's comical, sometimes, how things play out in the NFL. Going into Sunday night's Packers game against the Giants, the topic of conversation was kicker Mason Crosby's slump.
View ArticleQuarterback carousel
The Detroit Lions haven't won a game against the Green Bay Packers in Wisconsin since 1991.
View ArticleSeriously, governor?
Over the past few days, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder has said repeatedly that he doesn't view right-to-work legislation as being anti-union. His logic is flimsy, at best.
View ArticleBarry, Brandi, Jarrod, Darrell ... say it ain't so!
Is "Storage Wars" faked? "Yuuup!" says Dave Hester, who is suing A&E and the "reality" show's production company.
View ArticleMichigan's new recall rules
We've had our share of recall campaigns in the local area in recent years. Where good or bad, Michigan's new recall system - signed into law by Gov.
View ArticleA huge pocketbook item
Next year, 2014, is when Obamacare tax credits are supposed to kick in to make sure that health insurance is "affordable" for American families.
View ArticleNewspaper reality series
Jim Romenesko, a Midwest journalist who has a couple of blogs and a facebook page and such, reports that a bunch of newspapers have responded to a reality series casting call from NBC Peacock Productions.
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